{"id":13201,"date":"2014-06-09T01:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T05:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=13201"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:51:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:51:50","slug":"album-review-rog-pip-our-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=13201","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Rog &#038; Pip \u2013 Our Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13202\" src=\"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/PromoImage-295x300.png\" alt=\"PromoImage\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" \/>Rog &amp; Pip \u2013 Our Revolution<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Release Date:<\/strong> June 24, 2014<br \/>\n<strong>Rise Above Records<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rise Above Records is quickly becoming my favorite label already boasting two of my favorite bands of 2014, The Oath and The Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell. When Rise Above\u2019s latest gem from Rog &amp; Pip showed up on my desk I just asked myself one question. Who the living fuck is Rog &amp; Pip? Well, that didn\u2019t really matter because the minute the opening chords of \u201cWhy Won\u2019t You Do What I Want?\u201d filled my room I just found myself unable to stop moving in my chair.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cMy Revolution\u201d kicked in right behind it and it kind of sounded like a cross between The Sweet and Slade. This was some really great stuff and two songs in I just couldn\u2019t wait to see what was yet to come.<\/p>\n<p>Guitarist Roger Lomas and Singer\/Guitarist Pip Whitcher were members of Coventry freakbeat legends The Sorrows in the 60\u2019s and after the group disbanded Rog &amp; Pip continued to write together well into the 70\u2019s. This collection is comprised of mostly unreleased material and also features the Rog &amp; Pip debut 7\u201d of \u201cFrom a Window\/War Lord.\u201d These two songs along with the song \u201cGold\u201d proved to be the highlights of this collection but that\u2019s not to downplay the rest of this spectacular platter of facemelt. These songs cover so much ground and they really showcase the duo\u2019s ability to capture the true essence of the changing shape of hard rock music at the time. From the Grass Roots boogie rock n\u2019 roll vibe of \u201cRock With Me\u201d to the best Deep Purple song never recording \u201cEvil Hearted Woman\u201d, Rog &amp; Pip had all the ability, skill, and talent to have songs every bit as good if not better than their more popular peers.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w_7GgwKSddM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Listening to this collection of songs really had me scratching my head as to why these guys didn\u2019t catch on. I love the versatility, the sonic production, and the stellar delivery of these exceptional songs. \u201cOur Revolution\u201d is a great collection of songs that very well could have been lost forever but thanks to Rise Above Records the world will get to hear these gems and hear them the way they were meant to be heard. Somewhere I can only hope that Rog &amp; Pip themselves might get some joy in knowing that after so many years their songs will now be out there for the world to happily discover. \u201cOur Revolution\u201d is so good and it leaves me wondering just how many great bands from that era were sadly buried alive before being given the chance to show what they were capable of. One can only hope that there are many other bands and that they are all as good as Rog &amp; Pip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rog &amp; Pip \u2013 Our Revolution Release Date: June 24, 2014 Rise Above Records Rise Above Records is quickly becoming my favorite label already boasting two of my favorite bands of 2014, The Oath and The Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell. When Rise Above\u2019s latest gem from Rog &amp; Pip showed up on my desk I just asked myself one question. Who the living fuck is Rog &amp; Pip? Well, that didn\u2019t really matter because the minute the opening chords of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,277],"tags":[1164,1163],"class_list":["post-13201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-music-news","tag-rise-above-records","tag-rog-pip"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19764,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13201\/revisions\/19764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}